"I was just thinking about my friends back there getting inundated with rain," said Josh Hanna, a native of Philadelphia. "I'm glad I'm not headed back there."

Hanna, now living in Wyoming, has experience with riding out hurricanes.

"I remember Floyd in my mid-20s," he said. "We got 12 inches of rain in four hours. Trees fall, rocks crashing, it was a bad deal."

Chris Noonan is also heading west to stay away from Hurricane Sandy. Noonan, a former Kenosha native, spent the weekend at the Badgers and Packers games, but is thinking of his daughter out east.

"My daughter is actually in Philadelphia for one last year," he said. "We're a little worried about her, but she's far enough from the coast and should be OK."

With travel shut down to the eastern corridor of the country, even Milwaukee hotels are feeling the impact.

"We were close to sold out Tuesday, Wednesday," said David Noel of the Hampton Inn Hotel on College Avenue. "We've taken several cancellations, so now we have rooms to sell."

Noel said some people are extending their stay in Milwaukee, but like many others he'll have to wait out Sandy to see if his business balances out.

Meanwhile, some people trying to get from Milwaukee to the East Coast took to the road.

It took a few hours for the Aunet brothers to get to Milwaukee from Pennsylvania and Delaware for Sunday's Packers game.

It will now take them 16 hours to drive home.

"We got word that the hurricane that was supposed to go out to sea was a higher probability of hitting the East Coast directly where we live: the Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware area. It's happening now," traveler Jerry Aunet said.

So Jerry and Jon Aunet went to the Mitchell International Airport rental car counter, and for $350, they got a car to drive home.

They were some of the handful of people there who decided to hit the road rather than wait several days for a flight.

"We were weighing our options as we came out of there. We just figured we hadn't been to Lambeau Field and Green Bay, so we just hit some of the festivities after the game and decided we'd wait until the next morning, which is today, to figure it out," Jon Aunet said.

Jeffrey Metzger from New York, who was in the Milwaukee area visiting family, also considered driving.

"My loved one is at home. That's No. 1. At home, wondering what's going to go on. And No. 2, I have to go to work. I work for a cable company out on Long Island. As soon as the winds stop blowing higher than 35 mph, we're out there stringing lines and getting people's phones, Internet and TV back on," Metzger said.

He ultimately decided to fly to Indiana and borrow a relative's car.

As for the Aunets, even with the weather delay, they said they were glad they made the trip to see the Packers in person.

"Once it was game day it's like, 'Let's just enjoy it and have fun, and we'll figure it out.' And now it's a long ride," Jon Aunet said.

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